Bloody Skid Row stabbing rampage: Three slashed, suspect shot by cops

File photograph by John Schreiber.

Police Saturday have been making an attempt to determine why three individuals close to Skid Row have been stabbed earlier than officers have been pressured to shoot and wound the suspected bloody attacker.

The officer-concerned capturing occurred round midday Friday within the space of Sixth and San Pedro streets, the place officers witnessed the suspect assault a sufferer with “a pointy-edged object,” in response to Officer Sal Ramirez the Los Angeles Police Division‘s Media Relations Part.

Witnesses advised reporters on the scene that the suspect was shot when he did not obey instructions to drop the weapon.

Police had first responded to a report of a stabbing on the intersection of Seventh and San Julian streets, the place one of many victims was wounded, earlier than a report got here in of one other stabbing on the intersection of Fifth and Crocker streets, Ramirez stated, including that the suspect is believed to have stabbed all three victims.

The suspect and victims have been all taken to a hospital and have been in secure situation, he stated.

The weapon was recovered and police have been investigating what led to the stabbings, Ramirez stated.

–Metropolis Information Service

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